"Crunch Time" for Some Truths About ObamaCare--2

So don't enroll in Obamacare if you hate it so. Pay the penalty. That's your right.But you are probably covered by your employer, right?

In other words, pay the extortion.Thanks to government coercion, you are either beholden to your employer or are captive to a government program. The individual was subsequently squeezed out. ObamaCare is government posing as champion of its own victims. We don't need more coercion (the same poison). We need to get government coercion out of our healthcare lives.Mary, on conjecture that employer-provided health insurance will whittle away in favor of government plans:

"only 20% of people will get their healthcare through their employers"That's a good thing. Then no one will ever again desperately tied to their employer for heath care.Many have held on to lousy jobs because of employer health care. Never again.

The employer-based system is a major cause of the problems (like pre-existing conditions) in pre-ObamaCare healthcare. It was created by government policy decades ago. A few tweaks in the law could have fixed that problem, making health insurance individually-owned, competitive, and portable, like life, auto, and homeowners insurance. Instead, we got a massive new, rights-violating bureaucracy. ObamaCare was never meant to do anything but increase political control of our healthcare.

so in the future Obamacare will "free" me from having to have a job just for healthcare benefits by providing a place where i can buy healthcare on my own.has anyone bothered to think how you'll pay for the healthcare you would now purchase on your own? i guess you'll still need that lousy job to pay the those premiums and deductibles after all.oh, i forgot though, the money that corporations save in healthcare costs will be passed onto the employees. and if you believe that........................

"the money that corporations save in healthcare costs will be passed onto the employees."

Precisely. The money spent by employers on employee health insurance is part of the employee's compensation, and rightfully belongs to the employee. Any transition from employer-based to individual insurance should include a provision that employers hire an independent auditor to inform the employee how much money the employer spends on his healthcare, and then deposit that money in an employee HSA. It's only fair. A corporation that simply pockets the money [is in effect] unilaterally cutting the employee's pay, and is thus guilty of breach of contract.

This last comment that employers be required to provide an audit may be questioned on individual rights grounds. However, unwinding government controls is often more than simply repealing a regulation or law. Getting away from employer-based, or third-party-payer, health insurance is one of them.

Corporations certainly have a right to cut an employee's pay by mutual agreement. But if they are going to do it, it should be consistent with the employer-employee contract, whether the contract is explicit or implied. Corporations should not be able to use decontrol to make an end run around that contract to score a windfall. If they're want to cut the employee's compensation, the employee should know it, and how much.

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Greetings and welcome to my blog. My name is Michael A. (Mike) LaFerrara. I sometimes use the pen or "screen" name "Mike Zemack" or "Zemack" in online activism, such as posted comments on articles. “Zemack” stands for the first letters of the names of my six grandchildren. I was born in 1949 in New Jersey, U.S.A., where I retired from a career in the plumbing, building controls, and construction industries, and still reside with my wife of 45 years. The purpose of my blog is the discussion of a wide range of topics relating to human events from the perspective of Objectivism, the philosophy of reason, rational self-interest, and Americanism originated by Ayn Rand.

As Rand observed: “The professional intellectual is the field agent of the army whose commander-in-chief is the philosopher.” I am certainly not the philosopher. But neither am I a field agent, or general. I am a foot soldier in that Objectivist army that fights for an individualist society in which every person can live in dignified sovereignty, by his own reasoned judgment, for his own sake, in that state of peaceful coexistence with his fellow man that only capitalist political and economic freedom can provide. While I am a fully committed Objectivist, my opinions are based on my own understanding of Objectivism, and should not be taken as definitive “Objectivist positions.” For the full story of my journey toward Objectivism, see my Introduction.

One final introductory note: I strongly recommend Philosophy, Who Needs it, which highlights the inescapable importance of philosophy in every individual's life. I can be reached at mal.atlas@comcast.net. Thanks, Mike LaFerrara.

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